The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 10
The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell.
Who acts: Fox, Stork, fish dinner · What happens: arrive, set, serve, have · To what, where: time, fish dinner, appetizing smell
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Stork, fish dinner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 set | aux:pass |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 served | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 served | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Stork | det |
| 15 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 served | nsubj |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dinner | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dinner | compound |
| 19 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 smell | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 appetizing | advmod |
| 24 | appetizing | appetizing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 smell | amod |
| 25 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the Fox | time | promptly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | the time | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | the Stork | a fish dinner | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | past | a fish dinner | a appetizing smell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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